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Ruben E. Reina, Ruben E. Reina
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The University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania
Language
English
Pages
137

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Subjects

Indians of South Americ, Social life and customs, Folklore, Featherwork, Feathers in art, Indian featherwork, Birds, Indians of South America

Places

Brazil, South America, Peru

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The gift of birds: featherwork of native South American peoples
1991, The University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania
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Table of Contents

Feather objects in culture / Ruben E. Reina
Why feathers? / Kenneth M. Kensinger
Ancient plumage : featherworking in precolumbian Peru / Kay L. Candler
An ancient Andean feathered headdress / Virginia Greene
Social and spiritual languages of feather art : the Bororo of Central Brazil / Elizabeth Netto Calil Zarur
Feathers make us beautiful : the meaning of Cashinahua feather headdresses / Kenneth M. Kensinger
Fragments of the heavens : feathers as ornaments among the Waiwai / Catherine V. Howard
Feathers are for flying / Patricia J. Lyon
Feathers of blood & fire : the mythological origins of avian coloration / Jon F. Pressman
Crowns of power : bird and feather symbolism in Amazonian shamanism / Peter T. Furst
Harvesting feathers / Ruben E. Reina and Jon F. Pressman
Sources of feathers / Mark Robbins.

Edition Notes

Credits and brief biographies of contributors, p. 136-137.

Includes bibliographical references.

LC copy: Gift of Jay I. Kislak Foundation.

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Philadelphia
Series
University Museum monograph -- 75

Classifications

Library of Congress
F2230.1.F2 R45 1991

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Pagination
xxi, 137 p. :
Number of pages
137

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL24979151M
LCCN
2011658984

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